Chapter 264 Burning paper! Mourning clothes on the street
Seeing him like this, I also stopped smiling,
"What's wrong?"
"Hey, we worked really hard to find you. Your master borrowed hundreds of ghosts from the underworld, but the distance was too far, and the ghosts couldn't find any trace of you. Later, we relied on Yunfei to use his penetrating sky and earth
It was only through the forbidden technique that I spied on your traces, but..."
"Just what?" Listening to his tone, my heart started to lift.
"There is a price to pay for using forbidden techniques. Yunfei's vitality has been seriously injured, and his lifeline is much weaker than before. His thirty-year lifespan may be shortened again, hey..."
"What?!"
My body trembled suddenly, and a strong feeling of guilt surged into my heart.
"Then why are you still standing there? Let's go back right now! I want to go back and see him!"
"No rush..."
Lao Yutou waved his hand and said,
"You can't help him much. Gu Han is healing him. Now I won't be able to see him when I go back. It's better to find a solution to the matter at hand first."
"What's going on in front of you? What's going on?" I looked at him suspiciously.
Lao Yu walked to the window on the south wall and pointed at the red lanterns on the street outside.
"You must have seen it when you came here. Don't you think it's strange that there are two streets, red and white, in this town?"
I was stunned, temporarily pulling my thoughts away from Yunfei, and said:
"It's indeed strange. I noticed it when I came here. Do you think this could be... the red and white evil spirit?"
I struggled to say the last three words and looked at Lao Yu with worry.
"It's hard to judge now, I hope not. Let's go out and take a look before we talk."
Arriving on the first floor, Lao Yutou said to the straight-backed old man:
"Old Xu, are your clothes ready?"
"It's ready, it's on the table..."
Following the direction of Lao Xu's finger, I saw four sets of clothes on the table, two sets of white and two sets of red. When I looked carefully, I was stunned. They turned out to be mourning clothes and wedding clothes...
Lao Yutou nodded with satisfaction, looked at the sky outside the window, and murmured:
"It's still a little early, let's wait..."
While waiting, I told Lao Yutou in detail what had happened in the past few days. Lao Yutou was dumbfounded. Because he didn't avoid Lao Xu, he was also a little surprised and looked at me in the same way.
Changes occurred unconsciously.
Lao Yu frowned,
"I didn't expect that Yu Xian would be so difficult to deal with..."
At this point, his expression changed, he leaned into my ear and asked:
"She can't be true to you..."
I glared at him. Seeing that my eyes were wrong, Old Yu immediately became serious and said:
"The immortal cemetery and the wooden box you saw in Quzhai..."
Before he finished speaking, a gong sound suddenly came from the small street outside the house...
"Bang...bang...bang"
"Time is up!"
Lao Yutou said something, and then he lay down in front of the north window and looked out at Baijie. I also imitated him and looked out the window. I saw that the closed doors and windows of the tile-roofed houses on both sides of Baijie were all closed.
It was opened, and almost at the same time, all the white lanterns swayed in front of the tile-roofed houses in the whole street...
Then someone came out of every house.
I frowned and realized that these people were all women. I glanced over and saw that each of them had a braid...
The braids did not fall on the back of the head, but were draped on the side shoulders. Moreover, these people were all wearing white mourning clothes. They squatted at the door of their houses with braziers in their hands and began to burn paper money.
The dim and straight street suddenly lit up with piles of weak firelights...
It was already getting dark at this time. At a glance, the whole street was filled with people wearing white mourning clothes and burning paper money. The firelight in the brazier shone on their faces, and they all looked haggard...
"Woo...Woo..."
For a moment, there were cries one after another on the street...
My heart sank when I heard it. Why did I feel that there was a man's voice in this cry?
When I took a closer look, I was dumbfounded. Many of these paper-burning people were indeed men. Before, I thought they were all women because they wore braids...
This incredible scene made me feel terrified.
"He...what are they doing?"
"Shh..."
Lao Yutou made a silencing gesture to signal me not to speak.
I subconsciously looked back at Lao Xu and found that he was no longer there. I thought of something, quietly came to the door, and gently opened the door a crack. I saw a man in mourning clothes and a fake hat squatting at the door.
The old man with braids is none other than Lao Xu, and he is also crying loudly...
I took a deep breath, closed the door and went to the window to continue observing the outside...
After more than ten minutes, all the people on the street burned the paper money, and the crying gradually stopped. These people slowly got up and walked back to their houses, but the braziers were still placed on the street, with piles of burning fire pits inside.
Complete ashes.
"Can't look outside anymore..."
Lao Yu closed the curtains and pulled my head back. At this time, Lao Xu also came back. He locked the door, turned off the lights, walked to us, and whispered:
"Just wait, I'll be here soon, let's see what our luck is today."
Seeing his calm expression, it didn't look like he had just cried sadly, which made me even more curious...
"Who's coming soon?" I asked Lao Yutou in a low voice.
"I don't know either. Just wait and see. If you're lucky, you might be able to see that thing tonight..."
"That thing?"
There was a murmur in my heart, but I didn't continue to ask, but waited quietly.
Maybe because I walked too much on the mountain road during the day, I felt a little tired, and sleepiness came over me unconsciously. Within a few minutes, I slowly closed my eyes...
"Bang!"
Suddenly, a harsh sound came from outside the door. I was startled. I opened my eyes suddenly and looked around cautiously. I found that both Lao Yutou and Lao Xu stared at each other, nervously motionless, as if they were listening.
Movement outside.
I also pricked up my ears and listened attentively...
"Bang...bang..."
The sounds came one after another. My heart moved and I murmured:
"Someone kicked over the brazier..."
Although the sound was constant, there was no fixed frequency. This meant that not every brazier was kicked over. The other party was kicking it selectively. After a few seconds, the brazier in front of Old Xu's house was also kicked over.
It was kicked over with a "bang" sound, and I felt the sound was right next to my ears.
"Chosen!"
Lao Xu said excitedly.
"Quick! Get dressed!"
Lao Yutou said something, and then got up to put on mourning clothes. Seeing this, I also hurriedly changed my clothes.
After changing clothes, Lao Yutou and I walked out of the house and stood in a row with our heads bowed neatly. Only then did I realize that there were quite a few people standing on the street, all of whom must have been kicked out of the brazier.
Everyone stood in a team facing one direction, as if waiting for something.
Just when I was confused, I suddenly saw a person appear in front of the street team. This man held a gong in his left hand and a gong hammer in his right hand. He was walking forward unsteadily, while our team followed closely.
